Retd Army Captain V K Mehra and his wife, Cuckoo, started the Teasta Tea Shop, one of the capital’s oldest and most popular tea cafes, from their garage in Noida in 1995.
Deepmala meticulously chartered her way through the male bastion that even today reeks of sexism, and shattered every boundary to fulfil her only passion.
“I like this app because I no longer have to chase after customers like before or even bargain with them. The best part is I earn anywhere between Rs. 40,000 to Rs. 50,000 a month now,” says Shiv Kumar, an e-rickshaw driver.
It started with one innocuous cough in the middle of the night, waking me up, and for a moment, I was unable to breathe. I clutched onto anything I could lay my hands on as my lungs squeezed the life out of me.
Ananya Grover, Anushka Sharma, Arefa, Vanshika Yadav, and Vasudha Sudhinder of Amity International School, Noida, created a communication channel between kids in orphanages and senior citizens in old-age homes. Their sole objective was to help those who feel cut off from the rest of the world.
With winter having set in, the streets were not just empty but also foggy, and Neha waited outside her office in an attempt to find an auto rickshaw to take her home.
Fearing that the electric panel next to her flat would catch fire, she quickly alerted her own family. Her husband Girish rushed out with her four-year-old daughter, so did her mother and a friend who was living with them.